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Contents

Introduction

Preface

Contents

List of Plates

Abbreviations

Additions And Corrections

Images

Miscellaneous

Inscriptions And Translations

Kalachuri Chedi Era

Abhiras

Traikutakas

Early Kalachuris of Mahishmati

Early Gurjaras

Kalachuri of Tripuri

Kalachuri of Sarayupara

Kalachuri of South Kosala

Sendrakas of Gujarat

Early Chalukyas of Gujarat

Dynasty of Harischandra

Administration

Religion

Society

Economic Condition

Literature

Coins

Genealogical Tables

Texts And Translations

Incriptions of The Abhiras

Inscriptions of The Maharajas of Valkha

Incriptions of The Mahishmati

Inscriptions of The Traikutakas

Incriptions of The Sangamasimha

Incriptions of The Early Kalcahuris

Incriptions of The Early Gurjaras

Incriptions of The Sendrakas

Incriptions of The Early Chalukyas of Gujarat

Incriptions of The Dynasty of The Harischandra

Incriptions of The Kalachuris of Tripuri

Other South-Indian Inscriptions 

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Vol. 4 - 8

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Volume 15

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Volume 18

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Volume 22
Part 1

Volume 22
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Volume 23

Volume 24

Volume 26

Volume 27

Tiruvarur

Darasuram

Konerirajapuram

Tanjavur

Annual Reports 1935-1944

Annual Reports 1945- 1947

Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 2, Part 2

Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 7, Part 3

Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 1

Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 2

Epigraphica Indica

Epigraphia Indica Volume 3

Epigraphia
Indica Volume 4

Epigraphia Indica Volume 6

Epigraphia Indica Volume 7

Epigraphia Indica Volume 8

Epigraphia Indica Volume 27

Epigraphia Indica Volume 29

Epigraphia Indica Volume 30

Epigraphia Indica Volume 31

Epigraphia Indica Volume 32

Paramaras Volume 7, Part 2

Śilāhāras Volume 6, Part 2

Vākāṭakas Volume 5

Early Gupta Inscriptions

Archaeological Links

Archaeological-Survey of India

Pudukkottai

INCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF TRIPURI

(V. 37) (He) . . . . . who had come here, gave a field, sown with a khāri1 of grain, in his own territory, to the god, the holy Sōmasvāmin.

(V. 38) The Superintendent2 of the city and the town gave (to the god) (the income?) on the eleventh day of the bright fortnight and also on the twelfth day during the fair (of the god) . .. . . .

(V. 39) (He) . . . . always gave a jar (of corn3) for every gōnī,4 and also a couple of shōdaśīs5 (i.e., karsha).

(V. 40) The Dēśi6 offered one and a half times the one-twentysecond portion of the five spirituous liquors and a quarter of the goods carried (into the town?) among (these) donations .

(V. 41) . . . . . . .And the Chief of the Vāgūlikas7 gave (a bundle of) fifty leaves.8

(V. 42) The Pāyatis gave another (bundle of) fifty leaves. And the whole Mandala gave the alms at four threshing floors.9

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NO. 43 ;
PLATE XXXIII
BARGAON STONE INSCRIPTION OF SABARA

THIS inscription is incised on a broken stone slab which is still lying amidst the ruins of a temple to the north of Bargaon, a village situated at a distance of twenty-seven miles north by west of Murwārā, the chief town of the Murwārā tahsil of the Jabalpur District, in Madhya Pradesh. The inscription does not seem to have been noticed by General Cunningham who visited Bargaon twice, during 1883-84 and 1884-85, and has given a fairly detailed description of the temples and mentioned three other records found there in his Archœological Survey of India Reports, Vol. XXI, Part I, p. 101 and Part II, pp. 163-64. The present inscription was briefly noticed for the first time by Rai Bahadur Hiralal in his Inscriptions in the Central Provinces and Berar10 and was edited by me in the Ep. Ind., Vol. XXV, pp. 278 ff. It is edited here from good estampages supplied by the Superintendent of the Archæological Survey, Central Circle, Patna.

The inscription is fragmentary. Nothing has of course been lost at the top, the bottom and the proper right side. But an indefinite number of letters has disappeared on the left side owing to the breaking away of the stone. The extant portion of the record is in a state of good preservation. It consists of five lines, of which the last, which begins at a distance of 2' from the proper right end, contains only three aksharas. The average ______________________

1 A khārī is a measure equal to sixteen drōnas.
2 Sthāna seems to be used here in the sense of the sthān-ādhikrita or sthāna-pati. Cf. No. 88, 1. 15.
3. Ghatī as a measure is mentioned in the vārttika on Pānini, III. 2.30. If it is the same as kumbha, it would be equal to twenty drōnas.
4 A gōnī is a measure equal to four khārīs (Colebrooke’s Miscellaneous Essays, Vol. 1, p. 537).
5 Monier-Williams in his Sanskrit Dictionary gives shōdaśikā, meaning ‘sixteen māshas’, that is, equal to one karsha. Or, on the analogy of vimśōpaka it may have been so called, because it was equivalent to one sixteenth of a dramma.
6 Dēśi, which occurs as Dēśī, in the Pehevā inscription (Ep. Ind., Vol. I, p. 187), means probably the foreman of a guild, or the guild itself. See the Harsha stone inscription (ibid., Vol. II, p. 124) and the Nādlaī stone inscription, (ibid., Vol. XI, p. 43).
7 The lexicons give vāguli in the sense of a kind of plant, perhaps the betel-plant. Vāgūlika used here may in that case denote ‘a seller of betel-leaves’.
8 The Rajor inscription of Mathanadēva also mentions the tax of fifty leaves on every chōllikā (of leaves), brought from outside the town, see Ep. Ind., Vol. III, p. 267.
9 See below, p. 198, n. 1.
10 First edition, (1916), pp. 39-40; second edition (1932), p. 43.

 

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